Happy Mother’s Day!

By: Spring in the Air

Letter from a Mother to a Daughter:“My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.”

- If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago”… Just listen, please. Try to remember the times when you were little and I would read the same story night after night until you would fall asleep. When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be mad and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you making excuses and trying to get you to take a shower when you were just a girl?

When you see how ignorant I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way… remember, honey, I patiently taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed, combing your hair and dealing with life’s issues every day… the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.

If I occasionaly lose track of what we’re talking about, give me the time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous, impatient or arrogant. Just know in your heart that the most important thing for me is to be with you. And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as quickly as before, give me your hand the same way that I offered mine to you when you first walked.

When those days come, don’t feel sad… just be with me, and understand me while I get to the end of my life with love. I’ll cherish and thank you for the gift of time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you… my darling daughter. “

Spring in the AirIn a culture that worships youth and has a thousand sites devoted to parenting, it’s easy to overlook or get impatient with the elders in our life, especially our mothers, the people with whom we likely spent so much time, and, in the nature of relationships, also experienced so much conflict.

Spring in the Air published this letter on their Facebook site in honor of Mother’s Day, but it’s also a touching reminder that shifts one’s perspective on the elderly.

This entry was posted
on Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 at 6:30 am and is filed under Family.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Gotta Comment?
If you've got a comment or opinion you'd like to share, send me an email or fill the comment fields bellow, with only requirements your name and email address. I might just publish you in glorious pixilated black & white! Comments may be edited for grammar, spelling and length, or just to make them better.

Submit your own stories for the Zdenko’s Corner about rides, Gran Fondo’s, having a good time traveling and/or cycling, Croatian cycling history, etc. All stories are very welcome. There are more than 400 stories already in this blog. The search feature at the top right, works best for finding subjects in the blog. There is also translating button at the top of every story so you can translate each page to language of your choice.

4 comments to “From Mother to Daughter”

Hello Website Owner! Great blog, I love it! I noticed you were using WordPress and I figure I’d share a tip with you. There’s a plugin for WordPress I use on my own websites that will help you boost your traffic significantly – guaranteed. If you’re serious about making money online, check out my web site. Keep up the quality work!

Hello there, simply discovered your blog thru Google and found that it is really informative. This post is very touchy… From mother to a daughter. I wish I can say all this to my daughter… maybe she’ll find your blog just like I did! I’m gonna watch out for your future blogs. I will appreciate if you continue to post blogs like this one in the future. A lot of other folks will benefit from your writing. Cheers!

I’ve been surfing online more than 3 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. Sweet… It is pretty good article about your daughter. In my opinion, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful… Cheers…

Quite good post. I’ve never heard of such a nice letter like that… thank you for sharing this with us. I just stumbled at your blog and wanted to say that I’we have loved reading several of your blogs. I’ll be definitely returning to your site.